Saturday, September 1, 2007

In-Progress Truck Race Comments From Gateway

SPEED is presenting the Ram Tough 200 Craftsman Truck Series race from Gateway International Raceway at 5PM Eastern Time today. It will be preceded by a thirty minute edition of The Set-Up, SPEED's regular pre-race show.

This page will host any comments about the TV coverage of the race while it is in-progress, and a full column will follow the event shortly after. The rules for comments are on the right side of the main page.

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A 5:30pm start time is a little odd but from what I gather it can get quite hot in St. Louis in the summer months. Hence the later start time. My only guess as to why they aren't running it at night is because it cannot overlap the Busch race tonight from Cali.......On another note, they should have kept Skinner locked in the porta-potty a little longer.......

Yes, they could have given all the others a couple of laps head start then let Skinner out of the Port a potty. And I agree I don't think Krista should have been trying a French accent either. Well I forgot about the outside temperature in St. Louis in the summer. They should have just scheduled it on a different day than the Busch race.

Thanks for the info, kinda thought that was the deal. But us old folks who work on Sundays have to get to bed at a not so late hour, so the DVR will be working to get the Busch race for me. Plus trying to check in on Tennessee Football! Am I allowed to say that word...football

For those of you looking to see the start of the Busch race, good luck. All college football games are running long due to changes in the timing rules. Forget any pre-race coverage, we'll be lucky to see the green flag.

One has to think that NASCAR is being shuffled even further down the ESPN totem pole now that football season is upon us. Heck, even I have trouble focusing on the now 8 month old season once the pigskin starts being tossed.

I THANKFULLY have a friend that gifts me $$ towards digital cable for my birthday as it's NOT in my budget but I LOVE NASCAR and do not venture far from the house due to medical issues.

But 3 of the tv's in the house are normal cable and my room and the LR digital. So now, if they show stuff on ESPN CLASSIC or NEWS, we must stay in certain rooms and if I need to tape the show due to company or something, it's a hassle trying to figure out where to tape.

This ESPN conglomerate of 'nascar channel roulette' should've been THOUGHT ABOUT IN ADVANCE of NASCAR's deal.

All of you are MUCH more sports savvy than I and as you all point out the traffic problems of too many live things on ESPN, I am flummoxed at how we are supposed to watch the race.

Provided we can find it.

It's also a damn shame TW YANKED ESPN CLASSIC off of normal cable as of Aug. 28th.

Plus to have satellite in each room of this house tv's would cost us a fortune with a huge fee PER satellite box. With normal cable you can have as many rooms as you want for one price.

The digital I had put in 18 months ago is a HUGE LUXURY for me and I am most GRATEFUL for an old friend to provide this gift.

I know many families can't justify the digital cost (and neither could this house!!) and frankly it stinks. Why does everything have to be taken away and upgraded. Boy if ONLY they would invent "cable stations ala carte!"

While I realize some folks did not have FX on their systems, all this ESPN roulette is going to tests the patience of Job.